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Re: Technical Info on Fisher-Price Camcorder??

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From: Matt Blemenfeld
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 1988 07:01
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In article <246@ultb.UUCP>, glz5913@ultb.UUCP (G.L. Zeiger ) writes:
> In article <2433@phred.UUCP> artm@phred.UUCP (Curmudgeon) writes:
> >....  He's doing some experimentation with video
> >recording techniques and would like to get some information about
> >the Fisher-Price monochrome camcorder.
> 
> Is this for real?  Does this Fisher-Price camcorder *ACTUALLY* work?

Yes, indeed it does work! I'm pretty surprised that there hasn't been more
talk about this thing as an ADULT toy! In the local discount store it is selling
for $89 this week! For those not in the know, the Fisher Price cam-corder
uses cassette tapes (you get about 7 minutes or so from a 90 minute audio
cassette) instead of the expensive "real" video cassettes, and is 
black/white only. I've seen one set up in the toy store and, although the
picture is a bit blurry when recording fast moving stuff, was pretty 
impressed with the machine. I plan to give one to my daughter and keep one
for me, so we can swap videos with each other. (She lives about 1000 miles
from me.) 

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Message-ID: <3227@ingr.UUCP>
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References: <2433@phred.UUCP> <246@ultb.UUCP>

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!ingr!matt
From: matt@ingr.UUCP (Matt Blemenfeld)
Newsgroups: misc.wanted,sci.electronics,rec.video
Subject: Re: Technical Info on Fisher-Price Camcorder??
Summary: yes, it works
Message-ID: <3227@ingr.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 88 07:01:34 GMT
References: <2433@phred.UUCP> <246@ultb.UUCP>
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, Al
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